Chapel of the Holy Cross Sedona Arizona

WOW

Remarkable

Awe-Inspiring

Amazing

Breath-Taking

Life Affirming

Overwhelming

And those are just the beginning of the many emotions, visions, feelings thoughts

of the trip, the joys tears and experiences

shared with my family

new friends made

and

How are all of you this wonderful

Monday?

Walking up to this most Creator filled place, we were surrounded by the presence of the Universal Oneness of spirit; the sacredness surrounded us,

and we learned of the history;

The first conception came to Marguerite Bruswig Staude in 1932 in New York City while observing the newly constructed Empire State Building. When viewed from a certain angle a cross seemed to impose itself through the very core of the structure. She wanted to build a structure that would glorify her Creator and in thanksgiving for all that her family had received. She traveled throughout Europe looking for the ideal location.

She returned to the United States and while her and her husband Tony traveled through Sedona, she was struck by the beauty of the area and decided that this chapel should be built here. .

“This would be a monument to faith, but a spiritual fortress so charged with God, that it spurs man's spirit godward".

Built on a twin pinnacled spur about 250 feet high, jutting out of a thousand foot red rock wall, "solid as the Rock of Peter" the building of the Chapel was completed in April 1956. Just the physical construction was a physical miracle, overcoming difficult conditions to construct this chapel.

 The message of the Chapel
"That the Church may come to life in the souls of men and be a living reality is renewed and observed each day. Even as we speak it invites all to come to spend time to get connected with their creator.
The Diocese of Phoenix and St John Vianney parish has maintained and administered the Chapel since 1969. We are only caretakers of this most spiritual structure, where all are welcomed to come, meditate, pray and be reconnected with their Creator. We are here to pass this on to those who come after, so the Chapel may glorify the great gifts God has given us. In our transient existence, in good times and bad, we are here to be united with all in faith and purpose. To live in peace and unity with all our brothers and sisters."
 
This Chapel of the Holy Cross is filled with spirit, surrounded by the power of the Ancestors; the Red Rocks... as if Gods own hands hold and protect it, bless those who walk in and around ... it seems the clouds sit right on top of it even smiling there...
 
I can only hope that this photograph will fill you, warm your spirit, your soul and you can feel the majesty as I did on that day. You can be certain that more photographs will be shared with you along with messages ... with stories....
It was a remarkable trip...
 
As Dr Masters said during the ceremony of graduates,
"the proof is in the pudding" and as we climbed toward this Chapel... still unable to imagine how in the world it was built into these Red Rocks; what a wonderful expression and how very filled with truth those words are...
 
Yep, that's me there so little at the bottom of those Red Rocks and that most remarkable Chapel; that sacred little structure that is visited by people from all over the world, where the candles burn, and prayers are heard across the Universe...
And for all
I give profound and great thanks
And So it Is
 
Walk In Beauty,
DRSES
 
The fire is burning brightly and its embers are hot, with thoughts on the wind for all who's names are listed here, you know who you are.
 
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